On That Shining Star

Chapter One

 I love to travel, I've been traveling my whole life. My dad and I are exactly the same, we both love to travel and our favorite kind of traveling, is road trips. Both of us rocking out to Guns-n-Roses and George Strait in the car. My mom wasn't like us at all but she put up with us waking up in the middle of the night wanting to go see the Grand Canyon or the Seattle Space Needle, while she stayed home to take care of my pets. Life was great, I was going to finish high school a year early and get an early admission at my dream university. That was until my mother died.

My dad and I took a six-month trip to travel all of England, which was pretty amazing. It was my idea because we've been planning this for many years but never did it because we didn't want to leave my mom for that long. But the last thing she told me to do the trip with my dad, so I did. When we got back home, it didn't feel like home anymore so we just picked up and moved to a small city in Texas.

So, that is why I'm currently hiding out in the back of the trailer that contained every object my family ever owned. I hate to pack and I hate to unpack the same amount that I hate packing. Therefore, I'm hiding in the back where a bunch of boxes is stacked on top of each other.

"Oh, Addie!" The voice I've memorized since I was about five calls out to me.

"No!" I reply quickly but I'm sure to move from the space I was hiding from to another hiding place.

"I'm not going to ask you to drop off the boxes, I swear! You might actually like to do the thing I'm going to request." My dad replies, not exactly looking for me, but talking at the place where the truck opens.

"Oh, yeah and what is that?" I'm a hundred percent sure he was going to give me a horrible alternative request that I would not want to do.

"Going to Walmart and picking out a few bookcases for your library!" I stand up way too quickly and hit my head on a stupid lamp.

"Okay!" I run out of the truck and face my father.

"I'm going to stay here and let the moving guys where to place everything. I went ahead and texted you the measurements of your library to you for you can get the right bookcases. I believe twenty bookcases with those measurements will be perfect. Here's my card and please please do not get the most expensive ones there." My dad told me as I grabbed my backpack purse thing from the front of the truck and place the card into my wallet and take out my car keys.

"Si, señor!" I reply as I salute to him with two of my fingers. "Thank you, Daddy!" I give him a hug and place a kiss on his cheek.

As you can tell, I love to read and I also collect books as well. I have way too many as my parents have told me way too many times. In our old house, it was way too small so we didn't have much space and my room was small as well. I used to have books in stacks on a corner of my room, or in my closet, or under my bed, or all over my desk. But, since my dad and I moved we got a much bigger place. I get my own which was the size of my parent's room from the other house with a connected bathroom, and a walk-in closet. Along with my bedroom, I get my own library.

My dad gets his own bedroom which is a bigger than mine and with the same extensions I got. We both will share the basement, which is locked through a password type lock. The lock was made by my father, the letters are in Old Greek language and the password is our last name but only us can understand it because the letters are in Old Greek. Plus, the letters move every time it is used so no one can memorize once we put in the password.

The reason we need all this secrecy is due to the fact of my family operation. It's very low-key meaning only the government and my family know about it. My family was known as the very first people to make weapons such as guns, bows and arrows, grenades for the war. To this day, we still continue to make weapons for the government. My dad is the person in charge of all the stuff dealing with the weapons and he's been training me since I was about 5. Along with this business, my dad is also a bodyguard for many celebrities, he is one of the bests so he is constantly not home and with the celebrities.